SLP, Mexico.- The Cuban activist and professor Omara Ruiz Urquiola She denounced the acts of harassment that the regime has committed against her mother, whom they pressure to induce her to commit an illegality.
Through his networks social services, Urquiola pointed out that officials from the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) visited the family farm in Viñales, Pinar del Río, to allegedly fabricate a case against him, leading his mother to commit illegality.
“I have not been in Spain for a week and they already dared to try to confuse my mother so that she would commit an illegality that would be in our favor.” against and, finally, having ‘something’ against me,” the opponent explained and highlighted that they made a mistake in their actions.
With the intention of discrediting her, the regime chooses to intimidate her mother, who remains in the fight, “because we know that we are dealing with assassins“.
In his publication, he detailed that he acquired Spanish citizenship because he was a descendant of people with this nationality, in a completely legal process that respected Cuban and Spanish laws.
He also stated that he avoided taking advantage of the Cuban Adjustment Act in the United States with the aim of not giving the regime reasons to prohibit him from returning to Cuba, even though they have prevented him from doing so several times.
“I endured the unspeakable not to accept a status immigration with a political nature, in my case I suspected that it could be used as an excuse not to let me return home. Suspicions became certainty due to the concern of the emissaries and the ‘good will’ of those in front,” he noted.
Although the authorities try to use arguments to take away his property, he stressed that he has always acted within the framework of legality, and that he has a power of attorney over the home and animals in the “Finca Infierno”, located in the CPA Antonio Maceo, Council Popular Cuajaní, Viñales municipality.
“You are left with two options, either you stop trying the impossible, or you finish what you started and kill me. They say third time’s the charm, maybe now they’ll have better luck. It’s not difficult to find me, I don’t I hideI don’t owe anything. Keep in mind that the more you attack my mother, the worse my response will be,” he declared.
Without giving in to the harassment of the regime, Urquiola emphasized that he will try to get home and will not give up.
“You are left with two options, either you stop trying the impossible, or you finish what you started and kill me. They say third time’s the charm, maybe now they’ll have better luck,” he wrote.
The regime against Omara
The island’s dictatorship has arbitrarily denied entry to the Cuban activist and professor four times. Omara He has no legal proceedings against him and left the country with a visa to undergo cancer treatment in the United States. There is no legal basis to prevent him from returning home.
Omara, an art historian, taught History of Design and Cuban Culture classes at the Higher Institute of Design of the University of Havana but for political reasons and ideological discrimination, she was fired in July 2019.
Six months later he founded the Academic Freedom Observatory (OLA)along with other researchers. This observatory documents human rights violations against university students and professors in Cuba. In 2020 she was one of the activists who was quartered in San Isidro.
